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Costa Rican Basalt Ceremonial Metate

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Description

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Greater Nicoya or Atlantic Watershed, Period IV, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A large hand-carved basalt grinding platform called a metate that may have served a higher purpose besides food preparation. Around the rim are rectangular tabs with linear carvings - possibly stylized jaguar or human faces, but too faint to determine, and the front legs have relief arms and hands on the surface - this may have been a part of an openwork decoration that connected to the large rim tab. Metates were initially humble, utilitarian tools for grinding corn; however, the objects evolved into meaningful ritualized pieces, replete with strong iconography and intriguing sculptural forms - some may have even functioned as seats for special individuals, and others have been found in burials. Size: 17.5" L x 15" W x 9" H (44.4 cm x 38.1 cm x 22.9 cm)

Provenance: private Pasadena, California, USA collection; ex-private estate collection, Los Angeles, California, USA, formed between 1970 and 2000

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Condition

Missing and old losses to additional carvings that once attached to front legs. Weathering and softening to carved details on rim tabs. Chips and abrasions, but no repairs or restoration. Some green pigment on surface likely from storage.